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Clouding   /klˈaʊdɪŋ/   Listen
Clouding

noun
1.
The process whereby water particles become visible in the sky.  Synonym: clouding up.


Cloud

verb
(past & past part. clouded; pres. part. clouding)
1.
Make overcast or cloudy.  Synonym: overcast.
2.
Make less visible or unclear.  Synonyms: becloud, befog, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure.  "The big elm tree obscures our view of the valley"
3.
Billow up in the form of a cloud.
4.
Make gloomy or depressed.
5.
Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon.  Synonyms: corrupt, defile, sully, taint.
6.
Make less clear.
7.
Colour with streaks or blotches of different shades.  Synonyms: dapple, mottle.
8.
Make milky or dull.



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"Clouding" Quotes from Famous Books



... a new eagerness next day for their walk to the canon. But Prudence, looking at him with eyes that sorrow was clouding, said that she could not go. He felt a sharp new resentment against the man who was letting her suffer rather than betray himself, and he again resolved that this man must be made to "toe the mark," to "take his needings;" and that, meantime, the deceived girl must be ...
— The Lions of the Lord - A Tale of the Old West • Harry Leon Wilson
... over such themes as the fatherhood of God, his love to mankind, and his wonderful gift to a lost world. The son followed in his father's footsteps. He was a hard, austere, melancholy man, undemonstrative and reticent, shutting out all brightness from his own life, and clouding many an existence going on around him. I have always thought that his unwonted presence among us that day had a purpose, and that he had come to spy out some taint of heterodoxy in Lib's tales, to reprove and condemn. He went away quietly, however, when the story ...
— Story-Tell Lib • Annie Trumbull Slosson
... Pell repeated the words as if he had not quite comprehended. Then he said to young Jones: "You said this ranch belongs to you?" What was the matter with him? Was his mind clouding? The stuff he had drunk? He put his hand to ...
— The Bad Man • Charles Hanson Towne
... moon has come, Miss Dearsley. If there is no chance of her clouding over, I shall ask the skipper to slip us into the thick of the fleet, ...
— A Dream of the North Sea • James Runciman
... that it'll be successful; remember that," warned the man, his face clouding a little. ...
— Dawn • Eleanor H. Porter


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